Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...music on this set could have been refined down to a splendid two-disc album. Instead, RTF is relying on its reputation to sell this expensive piece of self-indulgence, and one is forced to wonder about the motives of all involved...
Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano (London, 5 LPs). Perlman and Ashkenazy in splendid musical partnership...
...matter how it is gauged, all this is splendid news for Mexicans, millions of who live in poverty. Pemex hopes to lift production from its present 1.5 million bbl. a day to 2.5 million by 1980. At the same time, it expects to triple its oil exports to 1 million bbl. a day, mainly to the U.S. (whose total imports now are 9.1 million bbl.). As a result, oil earnings are expected to hit $8 billion annually...
...January, floating softly through reading period, building up strength and momentum through examinations, inundating semester break. Then came February, with 27 inches of it, and martial law and Army trucks rattling through deserted streets. Snow set the tone for the coming months: this was to be a year of splendid, horrifying, numbing excess...
...things have ended, closing out a tough year. Nineteen-seventy-eight wound up producing the Core and a student government, a new governor and two new popes, the ballyhooed hope in the Mideast and the equally ballyhooed horror in South America. And of course the snow--soft and gentle, splendid in its beauty as in its potentially horrible strength